It’s back on. I think the outage lasted 4-5 hours, so not too bad. It came back on at the exact second our dinner was getting dropped off.
Kitty is so much better. He’s still swollen and pathetic looking, but he’s eating, and acting like himself again.
Eating is the surest sign of getting better. 
Sleep well, everyone at the eschrodinger homestead. 
I’m glad you have power again. Ours flickered but seems okay for now. My lovely wife is in a plane in the middle of the bad section of the weather map, but hopefully vomiting will be the worst of it.
Yikes!
Wow! You should paint a big red cross on your front door or plant a “Hospital Zone” sign on your lawn. That is WAY too much for one family to handle!
To add to @ThelmaLou’s excellent pillow elevation advice, here’s one from my doc: Put a pillow or two between the mattress and box spring at the head of your bed. It really helps, and you don’t have the slipping pillows issue.
Thanks for sharing the forced-coughing technique. Good to know.
Specifically, she told her to take 10 deep breaths in a row, once per hour, which will trigger a big coughing fit. The coughing is both a side effect of the necessary deep breaths, and a benefit if it moves gunk along from deep in the lungs.
But part of the point is you get scared to cough, and you need to just have that planned time regularly to keep doing it.
(I am not a medical professional. I am describing something I was told, as I’m sure I imperfectly understood it.)
I understand completely, and I appreciate the info.
How are you and your family feeling today?
Kid #2 still fine. My spouse is continuing to improve slowly. The deep breaths don’t hurt as much and don’t make her cough as much.
Kid #1 is in school today.
I am feeling OK, but last night was a little rough. My fever went up and I was very achy, and extremely fatigued.
I got a call from the monoclonal antibody folks, and I’m on the list. It’s just that they don’t have enough to go around. They’ll call me if treatment becomes available.
Got my 3rd shot this morning at Costco. Quite a few people there for it at opening. I’m kind of feeling guilty because I’m only 54 (with high blood pressure), but my wife is immunocompromised from cancer and the ensuing drugs and that pushed it over the edge for me. Got 3 Pfizers. Don’t know if I should have chosen Moderna.
I got a call a little bit ago – there’s an opening for the monoclonal antibody treatment this afternoon. So, I’m in. I’ll go to an infusion center to get it. Reportedly, you can feel worse at first, then better.
Glad to hear it! 
Yay!
and best wishes.
Awesome! I hope it works well and quickly!
Yeah, pleased and relieved to hear things are turning around for the better, @eschrodinger.
Here’s an odd little Anglocentric update. Over the months, to hear Boris Johnson tell it, Britain has by a mighty distance outperformed European countries in the matter of vaccination rates. As it happens, I have the TousAntiCovid app (we went to France for a week - you need it) and that gives you daily updates on vaccination rates. And it turns out that vaccination rates in (vaccine hesitant) France are higher than those in the UK. A little more searching gets you to this:
The UK’s performance is best described as mid-table mediocracy. Interesting. Part of the reason, I suspect, that our infection rates are so high.
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Excellent news!
If they ask you who are all those faces pressed against the window with big smiles on their faces while you get your infusion, just say it’s a bunch of Dope-y friends of yours. 
Great!
So the infusion center I went to is in the cancer center building of one of the hospitals here. Obviously, bringing very contagious recently-diagnosed (has to be within 10 days) covid-positive patients into the cancer center could be dicey. And the infusion center is not like, right as you walk in the door, but up a few floors and down several corridors.
So, the instructions say where to park, and then you call them while in your car. It also says you’ll be wheelchaired in, no exceptions. So, on that call once I’m there, the nurse says, OK, I’m sending a Guardsman down to escort you up. So a couple minutes later, Andrew, the Guardsman shows up, approves the type of respirator I’m wearing,* hands me a wristband and a face shield, and then has me sit in the futuristic wheelchair. Once I’m set, he starts zooming me toward the building. Not running, but fast walking. At the doors to the building is another Guardsman telling other people to wait at a distance as Andrew zooms me through. Same at the elevator.
20 minutes infusion, 1 hour observation, then Andrew reverses the process – this time we had to hold momentarily at the elevators and near the entrance for others to get clear.
I’m imagining fatigued coughing, sneezing, wheezing, stopping-to-rest-against-the-wall, semi-oblivious people coming in on their own if this process were not in place. It was a good idea.
In case anyone doesn’t know, the monoclonal antibody treatment was originally designed as an IV infusion, which has been problematic because the treatment is only for non-hospitalized patients, but in practical terms, pretty much has to be administered in a hospital. More recently, a new method of administration is being used where you get the dose divided into a number of subcutaneous shots. So that’s why it was set up in the cancer center in the first place – big infusion center.
*He had a mask for me, but said I should just keep my respirator on because it was better than the mask he had.
Very interesting. Any side effects?